2.03.2009

Sorry for not telling the whole story, for omitting what I felt I had to. And for what I couldn't bring myself to write about. Maybe someday. Maybe never. Re-reading old entries takes me back there, and I can only do it one or two posts at a time before I have to stop.

I just still don't get it.

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Hi Suspect,When I read your posts, I am always amazed. I was reading some the other night and once again thought, "He should REALLY write a book." And I am not kidding. And then I was thinking about how different it must be (in a good way I hope) for soldiers that have been able to blog about their experiences, as compared to any other war where this kind of instant "reporting" was not available. Because you choose to share with us, we therefore have to have some kind of better understanding of what it was like to be a soldier deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan. That does not mean we know what it is to walk in your shoes, but, at least we know something! I feel like if I ever have the opportunity to talk to a veteran of Iraq or Afghanistan, I would at least have a small clue at to what went on, the conditions, the weather, the hardships, the difficulty of your mission, the equipment malfunctions, the myriad of emotions that you have gone through, the anger, the fear, the frustration, the grief of loss, the good, the bad, the ugly and the smelly; so many things that people who have never read a milblog would never know. You may not have told us everything, but, at least you told us something and in doing so, I believe you have opened eyes and hearts to what is real about being a soldier.

BTW, did you remove Part I of your blog? I was bummed when I was looking back to read and it was gone! Oh nooooo....! I know you have said that you think those post were awful, but, I would disagree. That was you then, this is you now, it is all part of who you are on this crazy journey of life. Thank you for sharing with us Ryan, you are ever in my thoughts and prayers.

How To Condemn Your Soul

Episode II

This is a continuation of the blog originally hosted at eleven-bravo.blogspot.com. Through a twist of fate, I was not given the MOS 11B, instead I became an 11C. Calling a blog eleven-bravo when I'm 11C is moot.

The old blog contains the first phase of my brief army career. This is the second, the deployment.

It is also crap.

Cover Your Ass

You can't trust everything you read or take it all for face value. NO ONE has the entire view of the Iraq war. There are millions of pieces of the puzzle, perspectives from all sides and it can never be fully understood. This perspective comes from me, a young, uneducated, barely-passable Infantryman. This isn't the news. It's just a look through another set of eyes, nothing more.

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